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Source: Bilbaopedia. Elvira Goitia Barainca Photographic Archive.

The word ‘house’ has different meanings, including one in the strictest sense and another in the broadest sense of the term and including the concept of home. The house is here considered in its broadest sense as we refer to the family home and other type of dwellings.

Families in charter towns or other urban areas have usually felt a tie to the family homestead, from which their surname or nickname often comes. Even the towns have a founding house according to popular tradition. In the Gernikaldea district, that first house is the Mezeta tower house (Mentzeta as it is known coloquially) in Ajangiz or the Gautegiz one in the neighboruing Gautegiz Arteaga.
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